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Seattle-based Zuper, which provides software for companies with field workers, is getting into the smart-glasses game with the release of Zuper Glass, an AI-powered product built for skilled tradespeople.

Zuper Glass is designed for a range of professionals, including roofers, electricians and plumbers. The voice-activated glasses use AI to help workers capture photos or record video, perform inspections, and communicate safely while keeping their hands free.

The glasses are integrated with Zuper’s mobile app, syncing in real time to Zuper’s software platform, which handles work order management, dispatching, scheduling, proposals, payments, customer communications, and more.

Wearable technology and the advent of smart glasses has reached some of the largest companies, including Amazon, which unveiled augmented reality glasses for delivery drivers last month. The Seattle-based tech giant said the glasses are a tool to improve safety and the driver’s experience.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has billed his company’s AI-powered smart glasses as “the ideal form factor for personal super intelligence.”

Founded in 2020, Zuper is led by CEO Anand Subbaraj, a former Microsoft leader. The 210-person company has offices in Seattle and India.

“Zuper Glass is a breakthrough in how field work gets done and how it will evolve in the future,” Subbaraj said in a news release. “It is inspired by the people who do this work every day — technicians, roofers, and field teams whose hands are full, whose focus matters, and whose safety comes first.”

Zuper raised a $32 million Series B round led by Seattle-area VC firm FUSE in December 2023.